Since news of the scandal concerning the UCLA willed body program broke last spring, the program has been temporarily suspended as officials, faculty, staff and students await a report that will determine its future. Read more...
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November 18, 9:00 pm
Willed body program still under investigation
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Burial arrangements made for soldier VENTURA “”mdash; Marine Lance Cpl. Nicholas H. Anderson will be buried here after military officials, settling an argument between his divorced parents, granted custody of his body to his father. Read more...
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November 18, 9:00 pm
Editorial: UC should bid on lab, avoid private ownership
Despite a stream of security breeches and bad press, the UC should not simply bow out of the bidding process to manage the Los Alamos National Laboratory after overseeing it for 60 years. Read more...
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November 18, 9:00 pm
Editorial: Regents should make meetings accessible
Most decisions affecting the 200,000 students of the University of California are made far away from them. Except for one or two meetings each year, the regents convene at UCSF, a school with the smallest number of students in the UC system and inaccessible to students at the major campuses. Read more...
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November 18, 9:00 pm
UCLA doctor featured in People’s “˜sexiest man’ issue
Apparently, this UCLA doctor is more than just a mental illness specialist. He’s also a heartthrob. Dr. Arif “Reef” Karim, a psychiatrist at UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Institute, was named “sexiest shrink” this week by People magazine in the publication’s annual “Sexiest Men Alive” feature. Read more...
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November 18, 9:00 pm
Cybernetics combines many disciplines
When fourth-year student John Vaszari tells people what his major is, questions about robots and artificial intelligence frequently follow. At interviews for medical school this fall, Vaszari has given the same well-rehearsed explanation to doctors and admissions boards when they ask the inevitable question about “cybernetics.” An undergraduate interdepartmental program at UCLA since 1972, cybernetics is the study of control and communication processes in biological systems ““ cell movement translated into the language of engineering, protein interactions described with math equations. Read more...
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November 18, 9:00 pm
UCSA hosts minorities conference
Hundreds of minority students will travel from different University of California campuses to UCLA for a two-day conference to discuss issues affecting their communities in an open forum this weekend. Read more...